Where can I find the communication code words of CB radio?

I am an amateur in a new CB radio for Y2K. Atre there web sites which teach you how to communicate with other radio operators? I heard people use 10-4 and all those code words? Please give me at least the basic codes? which is the emergency or police channel? Traffic report? Thanks.

Answers

If you bought a Cobra, the codes should be in the package. Most
CB'ers don't use much code besides "What's yer 20?" (where are you?),
and 10-4 (okay) anyway. You should be okay. Police channel is 9.
Main/trucker channel is 19. You'll get more use out of it if you
live by/travel the Interstate system.

In addition to what everyone else has said, I'd suggest just
monitoring for awhile because different areas can have their own
slang, and unlike ham radio, users occasionally make up their own
codes to confuse other listeners.

It is illegal to send 'encrypted' transmissions, but here is a scheme
that is not only legal, but works well.

Make sure you and your recipient have the same copy of the Bible.
Then you send a series of numbers. The first is the book number, then
the chapter verse, then the word. Example: "In the beginning, God
created the Heavens and the Earth:"

1:1:1:3

1Genesis1chapter1verse3word = 'beginning'

Believe it or not, this worked well in WW II because the Japanese were
unfamiliar with the Bible, and the Germans used the Luther Bible which
is different. It will also work with page numbers of dictionaries,
whatever.

It might not work well with Feds, since they have had to start
reading the Bible to deal with the Christian Right in the '90's,
although obviously not too many BATF agents know the Bible very well,
or they would find another line of work! :)

Not a bad code set up if you pick an obscure book that you both
have. But if you attract sufficient attention "they" might catalog
your library in the middle of the night and find "that" book that is
common to both of you. Common books particularly the bible will be
checked first by any good cryptologist who will break the code you
suggest in a matter of hours if not minutes.

Exactly. That's why it's not an illegal encryption system. The idea
is not to conceal anything from cops or police, just to be able to
send a message without 99 percent of the yahoos on the CB knowing what
your'e talking about.

MAD Magazine had a very amusing parody of CB lingo, the setting being
a conversation between the owner and host of a restaurant. It appears
in "Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine."